Traditional Chinese society has been male-centered. Sons were preferred to daughters, and women were expected to be subordinate to fathers, husbands, and sons. Far fewer women were educated than men, and many of their readings consist of book such as Nü Xun (女訓, Advice for Women) and Lienü zhuan (烈女傳, Biographies of Notable Women), which instruct them to be subjects of men. Sketchy but consistent demographic evidence tends to show that female infants and children had higher death rates and less chance of surviving to adulthood than males. Bound feet, which were customary even for peasant women, symbolized the painful constraints of the female role.
Throughout the thousands of years of Chinese history, it was common for rich Chinese men to have a wife and various concubines. Before the establishment of the People's Republic of China, it was lawful to have a wife and multiple concubines within Chinese marriage.

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. ... invasion of China, where they continued to practice women's education and ...

Anne Kinney, University of Virginia ... In early China, aristocratic boys are said to
have studied the Asix arts. ... Education for girls consisted of training in the ritual
duties assigned to women and in domestic work such as spinning, weaving, and
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value.

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Women today choose from a wide spectrum of reliable contraceptive techniques, from the pill to the diaphragm to the condom, interspersed with various spermicidal sponges, creams, and jellies. There are, in theory, birth control methods to suit women of every age, shape and life style. But how did women of ancient China avoid unwanted pregnancies?

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Since ancient China to modern times, the Chinese have always favored kind, beautiful, and petite women with pale skin, bright eyes, and white teeth. The beauty standard has shifted greatly throughout different historical periods in China. For example, during the Qin and Han Dynasties (206 B.C.-220 A.D.), a woman’s morals were much more cherished as…